Good morning. My name is peter and on behalf of the nea aan roa i want to welcome you to our list of seminars on ballistic defense arms control and defense policy. We are honored today to have uzi ruben to as many of you know is the father of an arrow system and Ballistic Missile defenses in israel and he will be talking to us about what he called the gaza missile wars and some aspects of iron dome. I also want to let you know that our Seminar Series continues on the 25th of this month with general quality who is vicechairman of Strategic Command and we will also have scheduled Tom Dagostino the former head of mnsa and he will be speaking to us on october to a day to be determined. Our space series continues again on the 19th of this month. The new Space Commander general will introduce our two speakers. Our our speakers are congressman Brighton Stein from oklahoma a member of the House Committee on the Space Committee and he will be joined by highranking air force Space Acquisition of
Look, i took part in a rally against austerity in 2011 a year after the british conservative government brought in unprecedented spending cuts. I was on stage at hyde park, a quarter of a Million People marched against austerity in the u. K. And i am not saying muslims are the only people who wear beards but i take that as a rough indicator, looking at the crowd there were not many muslim faith as i could see. The same park where muslims gathered to protest against the invasion of iraq and the israeli bombing of gaza and danish cartoons of the profit. Draw cartoons and bring the protests but you are about to lose your job or livelihood british pakistani and politician communities, some of the communities hardest hit by Government Economic policies, austerity, spending cuts and yet where are the muslims on these struggles, and these battles at home which affect our daily lives and struggles. One last point about you were talking about siblings, you never fight with anyone as you do with
Information on the contest, the three branches and now. Today the Defense Department honored michigan senator carl levin and buck mckeon with a military parade. Theyre the chairman of the senate and House Armed Services committees, and both are retiring from congress this year. Defense secretary chuck hagel and joint chief chairman Martin Dempsey spoke about the legislative careers of the two chairman. This is just under an hour. Please be seated. Block [inaudible conversations] the department of defense medal for distinguished Public Service is awarded to the honorable carl levin for distinguished Public Service as plane of the United States senate from january 1979 to january 2015, and as chairman and Ranking Member of the senate Armed Services committee from january 1997 to january 2015. Senator levin has consistently been leading the a leading proponent for the Strong National defense, an advocate for Service Members, veterans and their families. That spans from the cold war to the
Flames broke out at this home about 1 30 this afternoon. The fire spread to two near homes before crews could put out the blaze. One firefighter was burned and is being treated at the hospital. No word yet on what sparked the fire. San francisco fire moved them about 45 minutes ago. Service is back to normal. We have new details on the santa clara teenager who stowed away. He was trying to make his way to africa. Marian is live at this house. Why africa . Reporter his teachers tell us that he is from africa. The boy lives in this home here and our nbc affiliate in hawaii also told us that the boy talked to authorities and told them he was trying to get to africa to be reunited with his bilogical mother. Classmates of the 15yearold boy who stowed away in a wheel well similar to this described the teen as a quiet student who kept to himself here at santa clara high school. Its really shocking. Surprising to me. I didnt think he would do such a thing. Reporter before he tended this school
Pipeline project. Its aiming 650 miles of natural gas line. They are on top of the natural gas lines. Theyre blocking us from seeing where the line is, and we want our customers to also see where the line s and also if there was an event, an emergency, we want to make sure that we can get to that line. Reporter but several east bay cities arent buying it. Martinez city manger says theyre determined to fight the removal. We are a tree city usa, so trees are an important part of our community of the and we just hope that they dont move forward without discussing this with us. What we dont want them to do is come into our town overnight, disregard our city ordinances, state and local law and cut down all these tries. Reporter walnut creeks mayor says nearly 700 trees have been earmarked to go there. She says the city is prepared to sue to stop it. We did authorize our attorneys to sue pg e if and when they believe that becomes necessary. Reporter but as communities talk of taking legal ac